Florida International University FIU Digital Commons FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations University Graduate School 3-5-2018 For Those About to Rock: Gender Codes in the Rock Music Video Games Rock Band and Rocksmith Elisa M. Melendez
[email protected] DOI: 10.25148/etd.FIDC006558 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd Part of the American Popular Culture Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, Leisure Studies Commons, Musicology Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Other Sociology Commons, Sociology of Culture Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Melendez, Elisa M., "For Those About to Rock: Gender Codes in the Rock Music Video Games Rock Band and Rocksmith" (2018). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3685. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3685 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the University Graduate School at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Miami, Florida FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK: GENDER CODES IN THE ROCK MUSIC VIDEO GAMES ROCK BAND AND ROCKSMITH A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY by Elisa M. Meléndez 2018 To: Dean John F. Stack, Jr. choose the name of dean of your college/school Green School of International and Public Affairs choose the name of your college/school This dissertation, written by Elisa M.